Questions tagged [topological-vector-spaces]
A topological vector space is a vector space $V$ over a topological field $\mathbb{K}$ (typically $\mathbb{K}=\mathbb{R}$ or $\mathbb{K}=\mathbb{C}$), together with a topology on $V$ such that vector addition and scalar multiplication are both continuous. Hilbert spaces and Banach spaces are examples of topological vector spaces.
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Is Schauder's conjecture resolved?
Schauder's conjecture: "Every continuous function, from a nonempty
compact and convex set in a (Hausdorff) topological vector space into
itself, has a fixed point." [Problem 54 in The ...
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Can you tell whether a space is Banach from the unit ball?
Let $V$ be a real vector space. It is well known that a subset $B\subset V$ is the unit ball for some norm on $V$ if and only if $B$ satisfies the following conditions:
$B$ is convex, i.e. if $v,w\...
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Duality between topology and bornology
I want to understand in what sense topology is dual to bornology at a most basic level. Therefore, I rephrased the definition of a bornology in the following way:
Let $X$ be a set and let $\mathcal{P}(...
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Grothendieck on Topological Vector Spaces
In a short biography article on Alexander Grothendieck, it is mentioned that after Grothendieck submitted his first thesis on Topological Vector Spaces (TVS), apparently, he told Bernard Malgrange ...
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Why is multiplication on the space of smooth functions with compact support continuous?
I asked the question
Why is multiplication on the space of smooth functions with compact support continuous? on M.SE
sometime ago but I didn't receive a satisfactory answer.
I was reading this ...
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Classification of non-Hausdorff topological vector spaces
It is well-known that up to topological isomorphism there is exactly one Hausdorff topological vector space (say, over $\mathbb{C}$) of a given dimension $n$, namely $\mathbb{C}^n$ with the euclidean ...
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Reference request for Grothendieck's work on "Integration with values in a topological group"
Disclaimer. This question was already asked in Mathematics Stack Exchange (see the link here). I wanted the question to be migrated here but I was told by a moderator that a question that old is ...
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Bases for spaces of smooth functions
Let $S$ denote the space of rapidly decreasing sequences, which means sequences $a=(a_k)_{k=1}^\infty$ such that the numbers $p_d(a)=\sup\{k^d|a_k| : 1\leq k<\infty\}$ are finite for all $d\in\...
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strong topologies on $C_c^\infty$
UPDATE (27/08/2020): I realized after a comment from Jochen Wengenroth that there was at least one false premise behind my question, owing to the fact that analysts sometimes use the words "...
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Is the Characteristic of a Field Detectable from the Topology of a Topological Vector Space?
Motivation
A topological vector space is a vector space over a (topological) field, K, that carries a topology such that addition and scalar multiplication are continuous maps, e.g., all normed vector ...
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Equivalence of σ-convex hull and closed convex hull
Let $X$ be a locally convex topological space, and let $K \subset X$ be a compact set. Recalling that the standard convex hull is defined as
$$\text{co}(K) = \Big\{ \sum_{i=1}^n a_i x_i : a_i \geq 0,\,...
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Nuclear operators/spaces and transfer operators
While studying for my thesis (in dynamical systems) I've encountered multiple times with the concept of nuclear operators and nuclear spaces, often linked with the works of Grothendieck. For example, ...
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Status of the compact AR problem?
The so-called "compact AR Problem" reads:
Is every compact convex set in a metrizable topological vector space an absolute retract?
It is open according to the chapter by T. Banakh, R. Cauty and ...
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Colimits in the category of (not necessarily locally convex) topological vector spaces
Do colimits in the category of (not necessarily locally convex) topological vector spaces (over R, C, respectively) exist in general?
If no, is there a well-known condition of when they exist?
If ...
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Do locally convex topological vector spaces embed into diffeological spaces?
The nLab casually remarks that locally convex tvs embed into diffeological spaces by (discussion around) a corollary in Kriegl and Michor, namely 3.14, but this deals with Boman's theorem and results ...
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Bilinear product of two summable families
Consider the following statement, which I suspect is false as written:
Let $E,F,G$ be (Hausdorff) topological vector spaces (over $\mathbb{R}$), let $\varphi\colon E\times F\to G$ be continuous and ...
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Is it possible to take "limits up to homotopy"?
Before I begin, an apology: it's been a while since I've done much analysis, so I might be misusing (or just missing) terminology.
I have a chain complex $(V_\bullet,\partial)$ of topological vector ...
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non-artificial examples of non-smooth and non-admissible representations of GL_2
Let $F$ be a finite degree extension over $\mathbf{Q}_p$ and consider the locally profinite group $G:=GL_2(\mathbf{Q}_p)$.
P1: Give an interesting example (non-artificial one, i.e., one that arises ...
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Isomorphisms between spaces of test functions and sequence spaces
I am in the process of writing some self-contained notes on probability theory in spaces of distributions, for the purposes of statistical mechanics and quantum field theory. Perhaps the simplest ...
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Closed vector subspaces of large powers of R
By a large power of $\mathbb R$ is meant a topological vector space which is the product of infinitely many copies of the real line.
Is every closed subspace of such a TVS linearly homeomorphic to ...
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Meaning of topological tensor products in Frenkel-Gaitsgory
The appendix to http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508382 by Frenkel & Gaitsgory (following an earlier work of Beilinson) describes three different monoidal structures, denoted by $\otimes^!,\otimes^*,$ ...
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Pull-back of generalized functions
Let $f\colon X\to Y$ be a smooth map between smooth manifolds. Then the pull-back operation
$f^*\colon C^\infty(Y)\to C^\infty(X)$ is a linear continuous operator when $C^\infty$ is equipped with the ...
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Open mapping theorem for complete non-metrizable spaces?
The classical open mapping theorem in functional analysis certainly holds in the Banach space setting, and this is where I first encountered it. Slightly more advanced textbooks (e.g. Rudin's ...
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$C^\infty$-vectors in general representations of Lie groups on locally convex spaces
This question is related to
this one. Let $G$ be a real Lie group (I should emphasize I only care about ordinary Lie groups, not Lie groups modeled on locally convex spaces or anything like that). In ...
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Is a Banach lattice isomorphic to a Hilbert space in fact a Hilbert lattice?
The title says it all:
Let $E$ be a Banach lattice, which is isomorphic to a Hilbert space (as normed spaces). Is there an equivalent Hilbert norm on $E$, which still makes it a Banach lattice with ...
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Infinite-dimensional affine space in algebraic geometry and algebraic topology
In topology, there are of course many different infinite-dimensional topological vector spaces over $\mathbb R$ or $\mathbb C$. Luckily, in algebraic topology, one rarely needs to worry too much about ...
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Topological vector space textbook with enough applications
(Sorry for my bad English.)
For "applications", I mean applications in math, not real-life.
There are many textbooks about topological vector space, for example, GTM269 by Osborne, Modern Methods in ...
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Reference for : a Fréchet nuclear space is Montel
I'm looking for a reference to cite regarding the property presented in the title: "Closed and bounded sets of a nuclear Fréchet space are compact"
Thank you in advance for the help!
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Schwartz space of functions with values in a Frechet space
While reading some papers about $\psi$DOs I found some spaces of vector valued functions which I am not familiar with. I am looking for references about the Schwartz space of functions with values in ...
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Attempted Banachification of a space
In a recent blog post, Terry Tao mentioned the question of how to tell if a Hausdorff topological vector space admits a finer topological structure which happens to be the topology of a Banach space (...
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Two vector spaces with homeomorphic open subsets are isomorphic?
Is it true that if $ E,F$ are two topological vector spaces (or say Banach spaces) over $\mathbb{R}$ such that they have nonempty open subsets $U\subset E, V\subset F$ which are homeomorphic, then the ...
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Metrizability of a topological vector space where every sequence can be made to converge to zero
This is a follow-up to this answer.
If $E$ is a (real or complex) topological vector space, we say that a sequence $\{x_n\}_{n=1}^\infty$ in $E$ can be made to converge to zero if there exists a ...
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When does the dual to the space $K(X)$ of compact operators consist of nuclear functionals?
Let $X$ be a Banach space and $B(X)$ be its space of all (bounded) operators. A nuclear functional on $B(X)$ is a linear functional $u:B(X)\to{\mathbb C}$ that can be represented in the form
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u(A)=\...
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"Economic" Eilenberg-MacLane topological abelian groups
This might be regarded as a sequel to my previous "Economic" CW-structure for Eilenberg-MacLane spaces? However the content seems to be quite different.
I believe it is easy to prove that ...
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Examples of topologies compatible with a given dual pair
Let $\langle X, Y \rangle$ be a pair of vector spaces put in duality by a non-degenerate bilinear form $\langle \cdot, \cdot \rangle: X \times Y \to \mathbb{R}$. A topology $\tau$ on $X$ is called ...
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Is the space $S'(\mathbb{N})$ of slowly increasing sequences the projective limit of Hilbert sequence spaces?
Let $S(\mathbb{N})$ be the space of rapidly decreasing sequences and $S'(\mathbb{N})$ its topological dual, the space of sequences bounded by a polynomial.
For $m\in \mathbb{Z}$, we also define $\...
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Integration with values in a topological vector space
Is there a general theory of integration of functions with values in a topological vector space (not necessarily locally convex)?
Browsing through mathoverflow posts, I came across a discussion ...
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On "linearly independent" metric spaces
Urysohn's universal metric space $\Bbb U$ satisfies the following surprising property:
Whenever $i\colon\Bbb U\to E$ is an isometric embedding into a normed vector space such that $0\not\in i(\Bbb U)$...
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When is the sigma-algebra generated by closed convex sets the same as the Borel sigma-algebra
For which topological vector spaces $E$ do we have the equality between the sigma algebra generated by the closed convex subsets of $E$ and the Borel sigma algebra of $E$ ?
More precisely, do we have ...
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closed subspaces of locally convex inductive limits
It's a duplicate of this question, since I really want to get an explanation.
Let $\left(V_{n},\phi_{n,n+1}\right)_{n\in\mathbb{N}}$ be an inductive sequence of LCTV spaces. A locally convex ...
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Topological groups in which all subgroups are closed
General question: does there exist a nondiscrete topological group $G$ such that all subgroups of $G$ are closed? Or, does there exist a nondiscrete topological vector space $V$ such that all vector ...
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Is any dual metrizable locally convex space a Frechet space?
[I have posted this question on MSE some time ago, but received no answer.]
The title basically says all of it.
If a normed space $F$ is a dual of a normed space $E$, then $F$ is a Banach space. I ...
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Convex hulls of families of probability measures
Let $X$ be a standard Borel space, so that the space of Borel probability measures on $X$ is also a standard Borel space. We denote it by $\mathcal P(X)$.
In this paper for any family of probability ...
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$GL_1(\mathcal{E}'(\mathbb{R}))$ open in $\mathcal{E}'(\mathbb{R})$?
Let $\mathcal{E}'(\mathbb{R})$ be algebra of all compactly supported distributions on $\mathbb{R}$, equipped with the strong dual topology $\beta(\mathcal{E}',\mathcal{E})$, and with the usual ...
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Inductive/Projective Limits of Topological Algebras
It is common to form inductive/projective limits of Banach/Frechet spaces in order to come up with natural topologies for common vector spaces. For instance,
For $k \ge 0$ and $K_n$ compact ...
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Simultaneous Strong Law of Large Number classes?
Say that $C$ is a SSLLN class of subsets of some topological space $V$ provided that for every sequence of i.i.d.r.v.s $X_1,X_2,...$ with values in $V$, we almost surely have: For every $A$ in $C$, $\...
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Topological vector spaces that are isomorphic to their duals
After reviewing the (locally convex)
topological vector spaces that I know,
the only examples I could find where there is an isomorphism from the
space to its (anti)dual, are Hilbert spaces.
So my ...
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Sequential topological vector spaces
Since I'm dealing with the distinction between sequential continuous and continuous maps at the moment I came to ask myself once again what can be said about spaces where these two notions agree (...
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Proof of the Schauder Lemma
Schauder's Lemma in functional analysis states the following:
Let $E$ and $F$ be metrizable locally convex topological vector spaces, and let $E$ be Fréchet. Then if the linear continuous map $A:E\...
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On locally convex (and compactly generated) topological vector spaces
Part 1:
How big is the category $TVS_{loc.conv.}$ of locally convex topological vector spaces (and continuous maps)?
In other words (and less cheekily), is there a free locally convex TVS having any ...